The victim was promised 'a good wage' by the family - but was instead regularly beaten and left a malnourished alcoholic, the court heard

Locked up: Rozalia Siwak has been jailed for two years and three months

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A family of three have been jailed after trafficking a Polish man and keeping him as a 'slave' for five years.

Damian Siwak, 31, Kyrstian Siwak, 25, and Rozalia Siwak, 47, forced the victim to work for nothing more than cider at their Manchester home, a court heard.

Whenever he tried to escape from the property, they severely beat him and threatened him with burial, according to the Manchester Evening News .

Now, the trio, all from Bolton, have been jailed for a total of almost eight years after being found guilty of the horrific offences against the 46-year-old man.

The court heard how the victim flew from his native Poland to Liverpool with Kyrstian after being offered ‘a good wage for an honest day’s work’.

When he landed in the UK, he was taken to the family’s home in Greenland Road, Bolton, and his identification documents were taken away from him for ‘safe-keeping’.

Shocking: Damian Siwak, 31, regularly beat the victim to maintain the family's dominance over him

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He never saw them again and was immediately put to work, never receiving any money for his labour, just his clothes, food and cider.

The victim was regularly assaulted by both Kyrstian and Damian to ensure they retained an 'element of physical and mental dominance' over him.

He ran away on several occasions, but when he was found by the Siwak family he was heavily beaten and told he would be buried in a forest if he attempted to escape them again.
This treatment continued for many months and the man soon became increasingly malnourished and physically weak.

After nearly five years of suffering, the victim finally managed to escape in June 2015 after he fell from a ladder and broke his ankle, forcing them to take him to Royal Bolton Hospital for treatment.

It was while he was at the hospital that staff became concerned for the victim’s welfare, and upon interviewing him they discovered that he had been subject to years of servitude at the hands of the Siwak family.

Family plot: Kyrstian Siwak, 25, brought the victim from Poland to Liverpool Airport

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Hospital staff called the police and officers soon swooped to safeguard the victim and remove him from harm.

Det Chief Insp Christopher Mossop said: “This is a harrowing case and involves one of the longest periods of enslavement and forced labour that I have ever come across.

“I cannot imagine the mental anguish suffered by this man, spending five years of his life at the beck and call of a family intent on exploiting him to the fullest extent.

“They worked him to the bone, day after day, week after week, month after month, never once giving him what he was owed or even treating him like a fellow human being.

“Worse still, whenever he did not do what they wanted, they beat him.

“They conditioned him to believe they were in complete control, that there was no escape.

“Such was their mental and physical dominance, that had he not suffered this injury and appeared at Royal Bolton Hospital, then I believe he would still be under their control.

“His physical deterioration over five years was startling, and their treatment left him malnourished and an alcoholic.

“The cider they provided to keep him under their control was his only outlet from the pain of his day-to-day existence.”

Damian was jailed for three years and four months, while Kyrstian and Rozalia both received sentences of two years and three months.

Gibraltar St, Bolton so i don't get it why he was found a few times after he managed to escape. He just escaped and stood still on the street ? There are plenty of homes to ring a doorbell and ask to call the cops etc not to mention enough places to hide.
Did he still contacted his family in Poland and forced to lie ?
many questions.

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Gibraltar St, Bolton so i don't get it why he was found a few times after he managed to escape. He just escaped and stood still on the street ? There are plenty of homes to ring a doorbell and ask to call the cops etc not to mention enough places to hide.
Did he still contacted his family in Poland and forced to lie ?
many questions.

Maybe it was fear they said he ended up a alcoholic so it seems a similar MO to those who trafic women for forced prostitution who usually get the women hooked on heroine.

Maybe this guy was vulnerable or had mental issues in the first place. It's strange how often this type of thing happens

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Gibraltar St, Bolton so i don't get it why he was found a few times after he managed to escape. He just escaped and stood still on the street ? There are plenty of homes to ring a doorbell and ask to call the cops etc not to mention enough places to hide.
Did he still contacted his family in Poland and forced to lie ?
many questions.

He could easily have been so psychologically fragile that he couldn't do anything more to help himself.

It's not nearly as rare an occurrence as you may suspect.

It is quite easy to be - completely - shattered mentally.

We are ALL actually quite close to it and very vulnerable to it at all times.

Kinda like a diamond. The hardest material known to man.

But just a tap, in just the right place, with just the right pressure, using just the right tool...and it will break in half.

It's just that we don't want to realize and face that fact.

"There, but for the Grace of God, go I"...and you too.

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